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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567775
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Book Information:

Author: Krzysztof P. Rybakowski
Title: The homotopy index and partial differential equations
Additional book information: Universitext, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1987, xii + 208 pp., $39.50. ISBN 3-540-18067-2.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jean Mawhin
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1989), 118-121
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15784-4